Khedive : a title (Viceroy of Egypt) accorded to Ismail Pasha by the Turkish Government in 1867. His successors also enjoyed this title. It was replaced by the title “Sultan” in 1914 when Egypt became a British protectorate.
... Arabs. So, Page 21 the two rode to the glittering reception given by Ismail Pasha in the recently built palace overlooking the new town on the canal bank, named Ismailia after the Khedive. The canal was filled with the ships in which many crowned heads of Europe had sailed to the inauguration of the Suez Canal. But the pride of place went to the magnificent l'Aigle which had... But as they rode, M. de Lesseps' thoughts must have turned to his friend, prince Said, who had died before completion of the canal. In his stead, his nephew, Ismail Pasha (who had taken the title of Khedive when he ascended the throne), was now declaring the Canal open. Mira Ismalun knew how tenaciously Ferdinand de Lesseps had held on to his project through many ups and downs. Had he, perhaps, inherited... those days had become intolerable to her —she believed in human dignity. So, one fine day, to the Page 26 utter scandal of all the good people, young Mathilde refused to bow to the Khedive. She had to pack her bags. That is how it came about that the Alfassa family, Maurice, Mathilde and Matteo — for by this time they had had another child —embarked for France, in 1877. "It ...
... rising above it like a queen as did Mira Ismalun, and taking advantage of it, she smashed everything. One day, to the utter scandal of all the proper-minded people, young Mathilde refused to bow to the khedive, probably finding it incompatible with human dignity. She had to pack her bags. She was twenty and had a young baby, Matteo (an Italian name in Alexandria?—one wonders why), who would be Mother's elder... which appears to be our last crypt, She was born precisely to break that code, to shake off that ultimate yoke, just as Mira Ismalun shook up the barriers of convention and Mathilde the court of the khedive, and to pull us out of this atavistic quagmire, into the open air, into some new state of man or new nature: We do not want to obey Nature's commands, even if they have billions of years of habit ...
... There is even a third fact which also has its counterpart in the experience of Indians. Mr. Blunt remarks: "The fact that no telegrams or messages between the Governor, Omar Lufti, and the Khedive, between the Khedive and Sir E. Malet, or between the Admiral and Sir E. Malet and the English Consulate, which must have been passing continually while the riots were proceeding, have been produced, is highly ...
... whom she loved with a kind of stoical love, would become the best in the world. Why did Maurice and Mathilde leave Egypt and emigrate to France? Some say that Mathilde refused to curtsy before the Khedive, the Egyptian Viceroy of the Ottoman Empire, to which Egypt had belonged since 1517 (and would belong only for a few more years to come). If true, there must surely have been a very strong motive for... 1870s were troubled years in Egypt, where the nationalist movement had gained ground since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, and there were signs of revolt against foreigners and the Anglophile Khedive, Tewfik Pasha. Whether this explosive political situation was related to the facts that forced Maurice and Mathilde out of the country, remains unknown. Their settling down in Paris was prepared ...
... beginning to bear practical fruit in Egypt itself, a storm of misrepresentation began to beat about his devoted head which has not even yet ceased. He was denounced as an intriguer, a paid tool of the Khedive, a Turcophil emissary of the Sultan. But Egypt felt the heart of a patriot in his writings and his speeches and her people responded to his call. The steady growth of the Nationalist party has been ...
... now the Turkish town of Edirne. ‘He had the skin of the people of the Middle-East, just like mine,’ the Mother would say. As the story goes, the nonconformist Mathilde once refused to bow to the Khedive in the manner exacted by protocol, and as a consequence was banished from Egypt. The young household, with its son Mattéo still less than a year old, went to live in Paris in 1877. They were somewhat ...
... inclined to debauchery and harboring a very dangerous contempt for money, I felt, perhaps out of a spirit of contrariety, a compelling need to paint. 2 Yes, like Mathilde in her own way with the Khedive, or Mira Ismalun with the customs of a feudalistic Egypt. Had I been born in India, I would have smashed everything! 3 Mother confided to me one day. We can well believe that. Not far from ...
... Abd-el-Kader’s shadow is not so far away, and Abd-el-Krim is nearby, stirring up his conspiracies with William II. All the same, Mirra did not like women to be veiled, any more than Mathilde liked the khedive's tutelage.) And Theon held forth: "This so-called civilization, whose leaders themselves are ignorant of life’s depths, whose mystics without knowledge read and understand the sacred books as one ...
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